ROOM FOR BRIE AT THE TOP

at the Soho House

Slightly surprising to me that the drama Room won the best movie award at the Toronto Film Festival, beating out other contenders such as The Martian, the Danish Girl, Black Mass, Legend and Spotlight.
  I thought it was an okay movie but it could have ended halfway through. Without giving away any secrets, the whole second half of the movie was unnecessary, I felt.
  There is no doubt though that it's star, the lovely Brie Larson is one of the hottest young actresses in Hollywood and is heading for great things. I met and chatted with Brie at a party at Soho House and we talked again the next morning in the more formal surroundings of the Fairmont Hotel.

At Fairmont Hotel

  Since the critics' praise for her performance, she has been chosen to replace Emma Stone as tennis ace Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes, the movie about the 1973 tennis match in which King, the No 2 female player, was challenged by retired former Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs.
  Brie is also a musician, singer and songwriter and has been performing in live concerts throughout the United States since 2005.
  She is also, she tells me, planning to make her directing debut soon.
 Quite a talented girl!